R evi of International American Studies ew ONE WORLD The Americas Everywhere guest-edited by Gabriela Vargas-Cetina and Manpreet Kaur Kang ISSN 1991–2773 RIAS Vol. 13, Fall–Winter № 2/2020 Review of International American Studies Revue d’Études Américaines Internationales RIAS Vol. 13, Fall—Winter № 2/2020 ISSN 1991—2773 ONE WORLD The Americas Everywhere guest-edited by Gabriela Vargas-Cetina and Manpreet Kaur Kang EDITORS Editor-in-Chief: Giorgio Mariani Managing Editor: Paweł Jędrzejko Associate Editors: Nathaniel R. Racine, Lucie Kýrová, Justin Michael Battin Book Review Editor: Manlio Della Marca Senior Copyeditor: Mark Olival-Bartley Issue Editor: Nathaniel R. Racine ISSN 1991—2773 TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN: Hanna Traczyk / M-Studio s. c. PUBLICATION REALIZED BY: S UNIVERSITYOF SILESIA PRESS IN KATOWICE University of Silesia Press in Katowice ul. Bankowa 12b 40—007 Katowice Poland EDITORIAL BOARD Marta Ancarani, Rogers Asempasah, Antonio Barrenechea, Claudia Ioana Doroholschi, Martin Halliwell, Patrick Imbert, Manju Jaidka, Djelal Kadir, Eui Young Kim, Rui Kohiyana, Kryštof Kozák, Elizabeth A. Kuebler-Wolf, Márcio Prado, Regina Schober, Lea Williams, Yanyu Zeng. ABOUT RIAS Review of International American Studies (RIAS) is the double-blind peer- reviewed, electronic / print-on-demand journal of the International American Studies Association, a worldwide, independent, non-governmental asso- ciation of American Studies. RIAS serves as agora for the global network of international scholars, teachers, and students of America as a hemispheric and global phenomenon. RIAS is published by IASA twice a year (Fall—Winter REVUE D’ÉTUDES AMÉRICAINES INTERNATIONALE and Spring—Summer). 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CONTACT INFORMATION and HARD COPY ORDERS Prof. Giorgio Mariani Dipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani e Interculturali Università “Sapienza” di Roma Via della Circonvallazione Tiburtina, 4 Edificio Ex-Poste, stanza n. 337, III piano 00185 Roma, Italy Tel. +390688378085, e-mail: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.rias-journal.org COVER ART: One World by Gabriela Vargas-Cetina © 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.2020.13.2 RIAS—REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES / Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) ONE WORLD The Americas Everywhere guest-edited by Gabriela Vargas-Cetina and Manpreet Kaur Kang Paweł Jędrzejko RIAS Managing Editor 5 TRANSLOCALITY/METHODOLOGY ED/NOTES The Americas, or Experiencing the World Manuel Broncano Rodríguez IASA President 2015–2019 15 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 9th IASA World Congress. Alcalá de Henares, July 8–10, 2019 Gabriela Vargas-Cetina and Manpreet Kaur Kang Guest Editors INTRO 29 COSMOPOLITANISM, TRANSLOCALITY, ASTRONOETICS A Multi-Local Vantage Point (Introduction) Gabriela Vargas-Cetina 39 INDIA AND THE TRANSLOCAL MODERN DANCE SCENE 1890s–1950s FEATURES Manpreet Kaur Kang 61 BHARATANATYAM AS A TRANSNATIONAL AND TRANSLOCAL CONNECTION A Study of Selected Indian and American Texts Albena Bakratcheva 87 ‘HIGHER LAWS’ AND ‘DIVINE MADNESS’ Transnational and Translocal Configurations of Quixotic In/Sanity in the American Renaissance Steffan Igor Ayora-Díaz 103 FOOD, TECHNOLOGY, AND TRANSLOCAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF TASTE Industrial and Processed Food in Yucatán 3 One World Anne Warren Johnson The Americas 123 Everywhere A MEXICAN CONQUEST OF SPACE Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitics, and Cosmopoetics FEATURES in the Mexican Space Industry 2020 / 2 № Jennifer D. Schnepf 145 COLLABORATIVE FUTURES Arts Residencies and Speculative Fictions E.E. PRIZE Nathaniel R. Racine fall–winter fall–winter , 13 159 MAPPING MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS VARIA ACROSS CULTURES AND DISCIPLINES ol. v Mena Mitrano rias 185 BETWEEN SUSPICION AND LOVE Reality, Postcritique, and Euro-American Modernization (An Introduction to the Debate) Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier 209 DEMOCRACY AND TRUTH: A SHORT HISTORY by Sophia Rosenfeld (A Book Review) BOOK REVIEWS Elena Furlanetto 215 HOW TO HIDE AN EMPIRE A SHORT HISTORY OF THE GREATER UNITED STATES by Daniel Immerwahr (A Book Review) Mariola Świerkot 221 A WORSE PLACE THAN HELL HOW THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG CHANGED A NATION by John Matteson (A Pre-Publication Book Review) 229 ABSTRACTS AND NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS END/NOTES 237 RIAS EDITORIAL POLICY / STYLESHEET 4 Review of International American Studies ED/NOTES RIAS Vol. 13, Fall—Winter № 2 /2020 ISSN 1991—2773 DOI: https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.10013 TRANSLOCALITY/METHODOLOGY The Americas, or Experiencing the World ncertainty. This is what we abhor most. Intuitively or methodically, Paweł Jędrzejko RIAS Managing Editor Uhumankind has been seeking certainty since times immemorial. University of Silesia Yet, whether the point of departure for such a search is determined in Katowice Poland by dogmatic ‘truths’ of religion, the (impersonal) logic of rational argumentation, the meditative experience of transcendence, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3251-2540 or the tangibility of empirical evidence—the shadow of the doubt never leaves us. It is, paradoxically, our most faithful companion, a trivial sine-qua-non condition of being human. The only formidable intelligence that exists without doubts—is artificial. De-humanized, non-human, in-human, Artificial Intelligence already poses ethical problems concerning agency and responsibility in the decision- making processes that affect humans. But although organizations, faceless and soulless, prefer their employees to act in a machine- like, clockwork fashion, we, unique individuals, rebel against being transformed into “human resources” (Wieczorek 2021; Wojewoda 2021). Intuitively, some of us attempt to fight back. ‘Being ourselves’ is, apparently, too important to forgo. Apparently, because many of us will not reflect upon the choices we face when corporations upgrade their software and our PCs’ computational power fails to suffice. Or when our bank introduces a new safety measure which requires that we purchase a smart- phone of a new generation if we wish to continue to do our banking online. Or when our own university chooses to assess us in terms of the parameters of efficiency (the IF, the Hirsch index, the i-10 index, etc.) rather than in terms of the quality of our insight. Nominally, it is 5 all for our own good. The advertised facility and ‘objective’ safety of ‘one-click’ online transactions, ‘objectivized’ data at the fun- dation of ‘objectivized’ remuneration or ‘objectivized’ principles of promotion—all serve to eliminate ‘subjective’ doubt. We shrink from such a mechanicized world, but we still choose to stay in it, even though it is clear that every step we take towards the compliance with the rule of the algorithm takes us further away from who we are, from who we have always wanted to be. Our own ‘subjective’ intelligence, more and more markedly attuned to the ‘artificial’ procedures, makes us depart further and further away from what we used to find fascinating in scholarship when we first embarked upon the journey of discovery (Wojewoda 2021)1. More often then ever, today we are inclined to stick to the Wittgensteinian ‘groove,’ traveling from point A to point B, safe on the rails of the unmanned train of thought, the ‘objectivized Principle.’ A love-hate relationship, which seems to give rise to a peculiar variety of the Stockholm syn- drome—we are ready to fight or even die for our freedom, but we welcome, and sometimes cherish, the oppression of the algorithm. Perhaps this is why professorships are no longer for those whose sensitivity, life-long learning, and intellectual power allow them to expose and creatively resolve aporias, revise history, or discover mechanisms of culture central to the well-being of their fellow humans. In the perspective of an organization, a professor does not necessarily have to deserve the trust earned over years of teaching students to tackle problems unresolvable by reference One World to binary, or even polyvalent, logic, and to question what others The Americas Everywhere take for granted. If you can demonstrate your ability to success- fully apply for grants, if you are able to bring in external funds 2020 / and manage your research in a fashion that allows you to produce 2 outcome that guarantees revenue at the end of the process, if you № score high in your student satisfaction surveys—you stand a very good chance of becoming a tenured faculty member. Interestingly, 1. These and many other issues related to the rule of the algorithm fall–winter fall–winter , and the ethical problems it poses, are systematically addressed 13 by Mariusz Wojewoda (2021) and by Krzysztof Wieczorek (2021), ol. whose articles are due to appear in the scholarly journal Er(r)go. The- v ory—Literature—Culture, in the issue titled machine/subject/power, rias in the summer of 2021. 6 review of international american studies american international review of whatever you do to comply with the algorithm seems perfectly well-grounded. After all, it is only ethical that your salary should translate into something of value to society. If your results are of “little social or economic relevance,” should the parameters so indicate, you are not just an egotistic troublemaker—you are